Just got back home after another busy day at Coningsby working on our old girl. To correct DisGruntled's quote, the purely magnetic compasses (two E2B type) were in fact successfully swung whilst at Cottesmore. The new gyro magnetic HSI systems had to be aligned too. However, probably due to the attrocious weather at Cottesmore making it very difficult to achieve a steady platform, this was not one hundred percent successful and resulted in a differential between the port and starboard HSI headings after the return to Brunty.
Yesterday,Weds, due to
PR activities we were unable to complete the necessary adjustments, but today, Thurs, Glen Stanton and Stu Bond of MA aided by myself(Pat Bowyer) and John Hufton of TVOC, successfully adjusted the system to bring the difference in tolerance. Adjustment was quite tricky, the components are not as high quality as the original MFS system used during Service life, considerable effort and much patience was needed to achieve good results.
The Avionics "problems" mentioned by DisGruntled, were not faults or defects, but merely adjustments and corrections to the operation of the ADDU altitude warning system and during the rest of today the MA techs successfully completed MA designed corrective work to bring this system up to full operational standard.
The aircraft is, apart from a Before Flight in the morning, now ready for flight tomorrow, Friday, at about 1130 hours.
Hope that clears the fog,
